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An anonymous bidder has won an auction for the hat that launched a thousand memes. The hat, a Philip Treacey creation worn by Princess Beatrice at her cousin Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding last month, fetched £81,000, or around $131,648,...

Last week, we predicted that the Royal Wedding would be the number one trending topic this time around. And we would have been right, if not for a bit of news that broke last Sunday. The shots that took down Osama bin Laden were shots heard 'round th...

YouTube’s livestream of the Royal Wedding was viewed more than 72 million times last Friday, the company has revealed. That's a higher number than the number of people living in the UK. In fact, if royal wedding web viewers were to form a nation (per...

Twitter says it saw its most expansive integration with television to date during the recent Royal Wedding, and it suggests that engagement on Twitter drives TV viewership. The company featured the above video in a blog post, providing a glimpse at h...

It looks like a match made in heaven -- the Royal Wedding and social media. The last such affair, back in 1981, was a TV-centric event, but this time around, spectators were also following along on their so-called second screens. The event broke live...

The Royal Wedding participants have all put away their tiaras, swords and spurs, and now it's time to see who created and received the most social media buzz during the gigantic worldwide celebration. This was undoubtedly a big deal, important enough...

The live-streamed-to-death Royal Wedding brought with it plenty of fodder for a meme-hungry Internet. While we appreciate the cartwheeling clergyman and shudder with you at the thought of the Cthulhu Hat, our hearts were completely stolen by the scow...

So some British people got married, and everyone got really excited and stuff, so we guess we should acknowledge the event in some way -- aside from, you know, all the articles. Hence today's YouTube Roundup Theme: Royal Wedding Parodies. Congrats, k...

Most viewers turned on their TVs to watch footage of the Royal Wedding. But the event was also big online, breaking livestreaming records and sweeping the trending topics of major search engines and social networks. As expected, many viewers turned t...

Friday was Kate's big day, but it turned out to be pretty big for her sister Pippa too -- on the social web at least. The bridesmaid's figure and dress have caught the Twitterverse's attention. News sources, including ABC News, and individuals around...

One of the hottest topics today is the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and Google wouldn't be Google if it didn't join the party with an obligatory logo change. Today's logo on Google.co.uk is a dreamy artwork depicting a mom...

An estimated 2 billion people watched the Royal Wedding. How did you catch the nuptials? The marriage of Kate Middleton (now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) to Prince William (now Prince William, Duke of Cambridge) is the first Royal Wedding since 2...

The Royal Wedding has already taken over trending topics across the web, and we can now report that it has broken at least one record: concurrent viewers on Livestream. The company says that its livestream of William and Kate’s wedding topped 300,000...

The Royal Wedding streamed live across the web and on TV networks around the world Friday morning, with 2 billion people expected to tune in. Meanwhile, viewers turned to Facebook and Twitter to share news and reactions in real time. They also used G...

The Royal Wedding has begun live streaming from multiple networks across the web. We've embedded two of the livestreams for your viewing pleasure below, courtesy of CBS News and E! Insider. To see our full guide for following (and discussing) the Roy...

With hours to go until the Royal Wedding, online buzz surrounding the big event has surpassed the chatter that surrounded the Egypt uprising and the Japan earthquake. New stats gathered and analyzed by Webtrends reveal that the world simply can't sto...

From the mainstream media to Twitter, there's been no shortage of Royal Wedding-related content across the web lately, and Tumblr users have been doing their part to keep their colleagues informed and amused. While there's a fair number of "serious" ...

Producers are working around the clock ahead of the Royal Wedding live broadcast, which is set to begin at 4 a.m. ET on most stations. But they aren't just prepping TV coverage; they're also working to extend their broadcasts and engage users across ...

In a bit of macho counterprogramming against Friday's Royal Wedding, Under Armour is hosting a Q&A on the NFL Draft with New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The chat, on Ustream and on Under Armour’s Facebook Page, will run from 10:45 a.m. to...

Any 140-character loving guests attending the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton will be sorely disappointed, as signal-blocking technology will be installed at Westminster Abbey to nix cellphone use. According to Yahoo...

The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is right around the corner (well, this Friday at least). The two lovers are not, of course, the only people that will ever get married, ever. It's very possible that you, dear reader, might need ...

From Flickr to Google, YouTube to Livestream, everyone is doing something for the Royal Wedding, and big-brand marketers are no exception. We've rounded up our three favorite spoofs, including an viral video from T-Mobile, a series of puns in the for...

One hardly need look at the numbers to know that talk of the Royal Wedding is accelerating rapidly ahead of the April 29 event. The numbers are nevertheless enlightening, especially in light of where and among whom conversations about the Royal Weddi...

If you haven't heard, the UK's Prince William and Catherine (better known as Kate) Middleton are getting married at Westminster Abbey in London on Friday, April 29. (We assume you have.) It will be easy enough to follow along on TV with nearly every ...

A Buckingham Palace guard has been dismissed from his royal wedding day duties after calling bride-to-be Catherine (Kate) Middleton a "stuck up cow" and "posh bitch" on Facebook. Eighteen-year-old Scots Guardman Cameron Reilly (pictured), who lists "...

In a bid to capture some of the many eyeballs that will be trolling through Royal Wedding footage following the April 29 event, Flickr has launched a group and contest to crowdsource related photographs from around the world. The People's Royal Weddi...

YouTube plans to live stream the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29, the online video service announced Tuesday. The live stream, hosted on the official Royal Channel, will run for four hours beginning at 10 a.m. ...

If the official Royal Wedding site isn't doing enough to quell your aching, vicarious desire to envision Prince William and Kate Middleton's big day, Google might be able to help you. Ahead of the April 29 event, the search giant has expanded its 3D ...

St. James's Palace launched Wednesday an official hub for the forthcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. As anticipation builds for the event, which is scheduled to occur on April 29 at Westminister Abbey, visitors can get their royal ...

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